- Ken Burns
- Look to TV and film for gift ideas With the economy still on extremely shaky ground, many Americans have had to make some major adjustments in their spending patterns, and most folks are getting their entertainment closer to home, watching…
- Chicago Tribune
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- 11/19/2009
- Fire burns warehouse of Ken's Stereo Junction
- Ken Jones surveys the damage in his warehouse where he said a gas heater apparently exploded early Monday destroying about 200 television sets and other electronic devices Ken's Stereo Junction had just moved in to put on sale this…
- Macon Telegraph
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- 11/16/2009
- UPDATE: Fire burns warehouse of Ken's Stereo Junction
- Several dozen televisions burned up in a warehouse fire this morning at Ken's Stereo Junction in the 3600 block Mercer University Drive. Macon-Bibb County Fire Department Capt. Rex Sampson said heavy smoke was showing from the building at…
- Macon Telegraph
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- 11/16/2009
- PhotoFilmStrip Turns Photos Into Video
- Popularized in many of the highly acclaimed PBS documentaries produced by filmmaker Ken Burns, the technique of turning historic still images into something more palatable for a television audience (by slowly panning across the images, and…
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- Book set in Smoky Mountains finally gets published
- Smoky Mountain Magic" was written in 1929 by Horace Kephart, best known as the Smoky Mountains author, outdoorsman and conservationist recently highlighted in the Ken Burns documentary on America's national parks. According to The Knoxville…
- Blueridgenow.com
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- 3 hours ago
- Book set in Smokies finally gets published
- Smoky Mountain Magic" was written in 1929 by Horace Kephart, best known as the Smoky Mountains author, outdoorsman and conservationist recently highlighted in the Ken Burns documentary on America's national parks. According to The Knoxville…
- Leaf Chronicle
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- 6 hours ago
- The wild home of hope
- hardcover: $24.95. University of Nebraska Press, 2009. Alaska writer laureate Nancy Lord's infatuation with that state dates back to a fourth-grade school project. Like so many transplants, she moved to the Far North to reinvent herself.…
- High County News
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- 5 hours ago
High County News- New Film Major at MSU
- EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Documentary maker Ken Burns is helping Michigan State University inaugurate its new film studies major. Burns lectures Dec. 2 at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts. While on the East Lansing campus, he'll meet…
- WXYZ
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- 11/18/2009
- The mystique of Joshua Tree National Park
- Joshua Tree, Big Bend, Capitol Reef, Isle Royale, Kenai Fjords and Theodore Roosevelt are national parks that may never be the stars of a Ken Burns documentary. But each offers its own charm, and you won’t find a traffic jam at any of them.…
- Olympian
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- 6 hours ago
- 'The National Parks: America's Best Idea' thoughtfully savors…
- Did you know that you and I own some 84 million acres of land, encompassing some of the most dramatic scenery on Earth? Our spectacular asset is described in "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," the companion volume to the Ken Burns…
- Cleveland Plain Dealer
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- 11/16/2009
